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European Glaucoma Research Training program - Advancing the Approach of Advanced glaucoma

Projektbeschreibung

Ein Schulungsprogramm für Glaukomtherapien

Das Glaukom ist eine Augenerkrankung, die mit einer Schädigung des Sehnervs einhergeht, der das Auge mit dem Gehirn verbindet. Wird das Glaukom nicht frühzeitig behandelt, schreitet es fort und kann zum Verlust des Sehvermögens führen. Ziel des im Rahmen der Marie-Skłodowska-Curie-Maßnahmen finanzierten Projekts EGRET-AAA ist die Entwicklung innovativer Behandlungsmethoden für das Glaukom. Das Konsortium bietet ein gemeinsames Promotionsprogramm für Nachwuchsforschende, die gentherapeutische und stammzellbasierte Ansätze zur Behandlung des Glaukoms unter Verwendung der Organoidtechnologie erkunden wollen. Die Ergebnisse von EGRET-AAA werden die Lebensqualität von Millionen von Betroffenen weltweit verbessern und die sozioökonomische Belastung durch die Krankheit verringern.

Ziel

EGRET-AAA is a joint doctorate program to provide training in glaucoma research, leading to joint doctoral degrees for 15 ESRs. It converts existing partnerships between universities into long-lasting ones. Together with many private and societal partners, our consortium forms a cradle for a European network of highly skilled, resilient, entrepreneurial and creative researchers, who will inspire each other to excel in glaucoma research, both during and long after the funding period.

EGRET-AAA will produce innovative treatments to protect and restore vision in patients with progressive eye disease glaucoma. By using revolutionary human retinal organoids, we will accelerate the development of new treatments and bring gene therapy and stem cell-based approaches a major step closer to clinical implementation, while minimizing the need for animal research. Through our findings, we will be able to protect the regenerated eye-brain connections and develop diagnostic techniques to select patients suitable for treatment and to evaluate intervention effects. By doing so, we will ultimately save approximately 1 million Europeans from blindness, and another 5 million from significant vision loss, thereby increasing their quality of life, and dramatically reducing societal and health care costs.

Through our interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral training, the 15 ESRs will gain essential skills and assets for success in a broad range of careers in academia and beyond. Based on our previous experience gained on multiple training networks, we believe that this timely program provides an in-depth graduate research training environment of unrivalled quality and pertinence, far greater and better than the sum of its parts. By anticipating continued demand for the skills and experience of our ESRs, we see EGRET-AAA as the precursor of a permanent and sustainable glaucoma-focused European doctoral program.

Koordinator

ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS GRONINGEN
Netto-EU-Beitrag
€ 1 097 481,60
Adresse
HANZEPLEIN 1
9713 GZ Groningen
Niederlande

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Noord-Nederland Groningen Overig Groningen
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Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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